silencio
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,158
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
silencio is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ausencia de sonido o de ruido. Pronounced [siˈlẽnsjo]. It ranks #1,158 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with silicio and silencios.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | silencio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [siˈlẽnsjo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for silencio is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [siˈlẽnsjo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,158 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for silencio, with forms such as "cilencio", "islencio", and "sielncio". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "silicio", "silencios", "silenciosa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is silencio, spelled S-I-L-E-N-C-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ausencia de sonido o de ruido.
- 2Resultado de no hablar o no comunicarse, o de dejar de hacerlo.
- 3Ausencia, falta u omisión de algo (un elemento, una parte de la información, etc.) en un texto, escrito o comunicación.
- 4Lapso de tiempo en que se deja de tocar un instrumento; pausa.
- 5Falta de respuesta administrativa que tiene significado legal.
- 6Toque para que la tropa se silencie, especialmente al final del día.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cilencio,islencio,sielncio,silecnio,silenccio,silencoi,silenico,silenncio,silensio,sillencio,silnecio,sliencio,ssilencio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for silencio
Misspelling Variants of "silencio"
Frequency rank: #1,158 in Spanish
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